The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-06
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Stray Bits of Entertaining Reading
Gathered from the Exchanges.


Stray Bits of Entertaining Reading
Gathered from the Exchanges.
a hospital for animals viii soon be
erected in London, and at the same time
free dispensaries will be opened, where
the horses, donkeys, cats, dogs and birds
of the poor can be treated when i'll.
The Swedes of Chicago are going to
erect, in Lincoln park, a $50, 600 monu-
ment to Linn3us, the famous bOtanist.
The monument will be the finest in Chi
cago, and is to be fac simile of the Lin
nsBus statue at Stockholm.
The Mercantile library of New York
city was founded and is entirely managed
by clerks Amy one, by paying the fee,
may become member; but TO hold Office,
or even to vote, one must be a clerk OF
working on salary in some mercantile
business.
A New York firm will manufacture
watches which cannot be spoiled, as com
mon watches are, by being magnetiZed
when brought near electric wires or dyna
mos They will have a palladium hair
spring and a magnetic compensation
balance.
A Tennessee mOuntaineer recently
found, under a ledge of rocks, the sworC
of Confederate officer 1t proves to have
belonged to a captain who was killed in 1
skirmish and one of his command hid il
that it might not fall into the hands of the
Union forces.
The burning of the Paterson iron works
is attributed to the English sparrow. Th,
sparrows have been noticed carrying straw
and other inflammable stuff and building
their nests among the girders, and it il
believed that the sparks lodging in these
nests caused the fire.
A scheme is on foot to establish homt
for Scandinavian emigrants in Boston
This is not to take the form of charity
but to encourage the Scandinavians to es
tablish themselves in this country. 1t il
estimated that $50 coo viii be needed fo
a building, and a nucleus of $1,000 o.
So, 600 is already available.
A remarkable drinking contest tool
place in a saloon in Carson, New, re
Gently; remarkable because the liquit
was water The wager was $40, and tn,
man who won it drank eleven larg,
glasses of cold water, and was rone til,
worse for it, THE other fellow drank min,
glasses and became i'll.
Something new in contests over wiki
is reported from a jersey court. The ties
tator bequeathed all his property to th
prospective children of his son. who is ;
youth of 15 and who, finding himsel
without means, has undertaken to bressi
the will on the ground that his father wa!
not entirely of sound mind
A Frenchman recently rode into Water
vile, Me, driving a big Newfoundland
dog hitched to a small two wheeled cart
which the animal had hauled inside o
three days from n town in Canada, dis
tance of about $50 miles. The owner sait
the dog could outstrip in days journe,
the best of horses.
An Iowa man has just shipped BOO, 00t
young pine trees from Black River Falls
Wis, to Iowa to be transplanted. H
has made shipment nearly every yea
for the last thirty years, and says his eX
perience is that these trees are the mos
thrifty and hardy and make the best win,
brakes Of any tree that has yet been trie'
on the Iowa prairies.
Some of the Buffalo sign painters hav
hard times with &c. and "etc" On
sign reads, Groceries, provisions and &c.
Another has it ''&tc." Still other forms ar
land etc. " "&soforth, - 'et6c," and AM
ct cetera." One man, who believes il
giving his customers their choice frome
large stock, hangs out the sign, CDR
Goods, Et Cetera, Etc, &c
The Philadelphia Crematory associa
ton has decided on plans for its crema
tory building, which will be 81 by 90 fee
in size, 81 feet in height, and consists of
crematory chamber and over that chapel
The latter will be 30 feet square and
feet high, Brick, Ohio sandstone an
iron will be the principal materials used